Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 13:20:38
Message-Id: 20140727142009.5c128b37@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps by Samuli Suominen
1 On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 14:42:24 +0300
2 Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> wrote:
3 > We just succesfully converted ~300 ebuilds in tree without revision
4 > bumps from virtual/udev[gudev,introspection,static-libs]
5 > to virtual/libudev and virtual/libgudev
6 > Tested it on multiple boxes, went fine.
7
8 Testing can't prove that it's correct, only that it's incorrect... All
9 Aside from all the way you've disabled dynamic dependencies for a whole
10 bunch of packages without realising it, your other problem is that some
11 of the breakage won't show up until later, when people start bumping
12 and removing ebuilds.
13
14 And this is the problem: you need to think carefully about dynamic
15 dependencies and fully understand the problem. Superficial testing won't
16 give you the whole story.
17
18 --
19 Ciaran McCreesh

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